Forum Activity for @strumelia

How to un-follow discussions for a user that leaves the Group

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Thanks very much Paul.

How to un-follow discussions for a user that leaves the Group

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The member is this person:
https://fotmd.com/judith

How to un-follow discussions for a user that leaves the Group

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I'm not sure if this is directly related to the new update, but...

I just received a message from a member who has received the following email notification:

A Discussion you are following has been updated:
user: Garret
post: Makes of chromatic dulcimers
view: https://fotmd.com/strumelia/group_discuss/507/makes-of-chromatic-dulcimers#cm159069
Here is the message that has just been posted: .....(etc etc)

The member who got this notification thought I should know about it. She sent me various helpful screenshots clearly showing she is not following that group discussion, and is not a member of that group (never has been, thus cannot even see the new post when she follows the email link), and neither she nor the poster of the new post are following each other. She seems to have no connections to it at all, yet she received this random email notification about a new post in that group discussion.

Admin login

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I have 3 master admins. But they are all me, each has a different use.
I have 6 longtime trusted 'Profile Admins'- who act as site moderators.

Admin login

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Oh, you're right Paul!- you jogged my memory of long ago my creating "master Admin" and "Moderator/profile admin" quotas- so that I could keep them organized on my site. This is good info to know about the User Datastore browser being the universal place to search the various user roles- thank you.

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Maybe I'm missing something, but... does it not show all these roles in the Quota Browser? Mine does. ACP-> Users-> quota browser. Then you just click on the boxed number there in the column "Profiles" next to the quota you're interested in, and it shows all the people/profiles that are in that quota. It's pretty quick to do.
If I click on the number next to 'Master Admin', it goes right to the page listing all the Master admin accounts.
The quota browser is found here:
https://(yoursite).com/profile/quota_browser
or just use the menu dropdown under ACP as above.

Forum Categories

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I'm wondering if you might have forums allowed on more than one quota. To double check that:

If you go to your "Profiles" module, one of the "Tools" there is called Quota Compare (to compare Modules allowed in each profile quota). It's url is found at: https://(yoursite).com/profile/quota_compare
If you go there to Quota Compare tool, you can see if the "Forum" module (under the Profiles heading) is activated for more than one quota or just active for one quota such as Master Admin. On my site, I created a separate quota called "Forums" and made it the only quota with an active Forum module- which is the forum for my whole site to use. Then I created a new profile as a 'child' of my master admin user and named it Forums, and put that as the only member of my Forums Quota... thus the only member of my site that can have a forum and forum categories.
I say this because you may have activated forums for various quotas on your site, for example for all regular members. You can see whether you did in the Quota Compare tool. That would explain why you might have set the categories in a certain order on your own profile forums, only to see them in a different order somewhere else. Check that first. Perhaps it was your intention to let all members have their own individual forums on your site, but most people prefer one site-wide forum, so I'm suggesting you first check to see how many users you have allowed to have forums.
To set which quotas are allowed to have forums (and categories), you would go into your Forum module 'quota config' tab, here: https://(yoursite).com/forum/admin/quota and set each selected quota with the 'allow profile forum' checkbox on or off. On my site the only quota I have the checkbox checked on is my Forums Quota.

Hope this helps... and I apologize if it's not what you were asking about at all!
But it's always handy to know where to find the Quota Compare tool, in any case!
updated by @strumelia: 04/20/19 08:49:55AM

Moving Content

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If the forum posts are by other members (not you) then you have two choices: 1) either copy/paste the post content into your OWN blog (and it would show as being posted by you and they would no longer be able to create blog posts in it, since it'd be your blog), OR 2) that member would have to first create a blog of their own for you (or them) to paste the post into. In other words, they'd have to create a blog first, to post their forum posts into ...if you want it to be seen as posted by them in their blog. And right, either way you'd lose all the comments.

Forum Categories

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Go to the profile page of the profile that 'owns' your site-wide forums. There, click on the box for Forum Discussions or Forums, and then click the TAB for Categories. Then you'll see the list of categories with arrow buttons on the left to move them up or down to reorder them.

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Were the forum posts and the blog posts both belonging to (created by) the same user?